Interesting perspective.  

It’s Okay to Have No Goals and Want Nothing
           by Dr. Amy Johnson, psychologist  

The self-help culture tells us that we need a vision. A goal. A direction, if we want to end up somewhere. Without a direction or vision, how will we possibly know where to go? They tell us we’ll end up nowhere, fast.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Life is constantly unfolding. Things are always happening. Life moves you whether you think about it and plan for it or not, as you may have noticed. 

Life is always occurring on your behalf, with absolutely no strategy or forethought needed.

It is perfectly okay to be in the flow of it rather than trying to control the flow of it.

It is a wonderful feeling to want nothing but what you already have.  

You will not stay stuck where you are (as if that’s a bad thing). You will get pushed along with the current of life as you always have—plans and goals or not.

If you truly want something, you know it. That thing becomes your dream, wish, or goal on its own, naturally. You don’t ever have to brainstorm “Hmm, what would make me happy?” and then set that as a goal.

It shouldn’t be an exercise to decide what you want. If it is, I highly doubt you truly want those things.

Since I started doing the inside-out experiment a couple years ago, there’s been almost nothing I crave aside from what I already have.  Having no goals and no burning desires might actually mean you’re content and enjoying the life you have.

Habit formation is an important goal for behavior change interventions 
because habitual behaviors are elicited automatically
and are therefore likely to be maintained.

 
All habits—no matter how large or small—have three components, according to neurological studies.

• a cue—a trigger for a particular behavior;
• a routine, which is the behavior itself;  and
  
• a reward, which is how your brain decides whether to remember a habit for the future.

The two basic rules for forming a Habit are:

First, find a simple and obvious cue.
Second, clearly define the rewards.

According to Scientists, Habits are so powerful because they create neurological cravings.  Most of the time, these cravings emerge so gradually that we’re not really aware they exist. But as our brains start to associate certain cues (a bakery box!) with certain rewards (yummy pastry!), a subconscious craving emerges. And so whenever we see the bakery box in the break room we start craving a pastry—even if, just moments before, we weren't hungry at all.

If you can identify the right cue and reward—and if you can create a sense of craving—you can establish almost any habit.

For the past six years I've been interested in the well-thought-out Habit concepts of The No S Diet, and at  present, I am very focused on turning some specific Behaviors into Habits.

I believe achieving success in this area would be tremendously helpful to me in the areas of weight-loss and maintenance.  Wouldn't it be great if I CRAVED the Eating BEHAVIORS that served to keep me a "normal" weight?

Although I'm finding this type of Habit formation quite difficult, I feel certain that it's possible. During the past nine-and-one-third years, I've succeeded at establishing the habit of tracking all of my food intake into a computer food journal every day. Now… if I can just do the same thing with several specific positive eating behaviors …….

 Ageing is the process of becoming the person
you were always destined to become.

This is not a bad thing.